Cali Wildfire Victims Ask: Where's FEMA?

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News/AP

Patty Reedy is still waiting for someone at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to send her the mobile home she was promised before Christmas.

In December, agency inspectors said she wouldn't get a government house to replace the one she lost during last year's wildfires because it would be too difficult to haul the 60-foot, three-bedroom prefabricated home up a winding road to her remote mountaintop property.

Reedy isn't alone. FEMA brought dozens of mobile homes to Southern California after the fires, only to find their own guidelines prevented them from putting them on many properties in rough terrain. San Diego County officials say dozens of applicants were denied homes because their properties were inaccessible to trucks, didn't have connections into the electrical grid or were on hillsides deemed at mudslide risk.

"They don't have any familiarity with these areas so they can't conceive of the needs being different," said Deena Raver, a contractor who was hired by San Diego County to help fire victims. "You're talking about one area with sewage and water and other places that are very rural."

The mobile home delay is another blemish on a beleaguered agency.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/17/national/main3841429.shtml

[NC_Nurse]

1. They're having a fake press conference.

:evilgrin:

[ryanmuegge]

2. The cameras are gone.

[thunder rising]

3. I guess the Governator doesn't count any more since he can't keep his wife in line.

[shanti]

8. heh

;) :hi:

[sutz12]

4. They're on a corporate retreat.... nt

[pitohui]

5. haven't you heard? mobile homes and trailers are poison

not poison enough to call a halt to the million dollar business of SELLING the things, she's perfectly free to buy her own trailer should she have anything left after losing her home, but FEMA is now out of the business of putting people in temporary trailers and mobile homes using the excuse that they have suddenly discovered that, gasp, they outgas 77 parts in a BILLION of formadehyde

i agree that it stinks and it's amazing how they can dream up an excuse like this to get out of helping people homeless thru absolutely no fault of their own

we're on our own, folks

[candymarl]

6. FEMA?

They expect help from FEMA? I guess they were all unconscious during Katrina, Rita, etc. I feel sorry for them but if they still haven't gotten the message that this administration doesn't care about them (unless they're wealthy) well...

[rocktivity]

7. Candidate for this month's "You Call This NEWS?" Award

After New Orleans and Kansas, what did they expect?

:headbang:
rocknation

[EFerrari]

9. You're right. FEMA barely exists any more. n/t